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Alt-rock favorites Weezer will play two concerts at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on April 5 and 6. On the 5th, they'll perform their 1994 self-titled debut album in its entirety, and on the 6th, they'll tackle the 1996 followup, "Pinkerton." A "greatest hits" set will close out both nights.

Tickets are $54.50 - $89.50 and go on sale at noon central this Fri., February 14 via Ticketmaster, the Ryman box office, ryman.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000.

F***ed Up’s David Comes to Life is the album that Green Day’s American Idiot pretended to be: a Who-inspired rock opera with a raging punk pulse. Over its nearly 80-minute runtime, imposing frontman Damian Abraham growls atonally over three-chord firestorms, telling the loose and longwinded tale of David, a British factory worker who falls for a radical rebel named Veronica.

In fitting rock opera fashion, the story is all but impossible to fully digest, even if you’re armed with a lyric sheet (see www.davidcomestolife.com for course materials), but in smaller chunks it’s an immediately fun listen, particularly its blistering first act with standouts “The Other Shoe” and “Queen of Hearts.”

The band’s current tourmates are none other than Nashville psych-punk stars JEFF the Brotherhood, who’ve just released their sixth album, We Are the Champions. It’s not nearly as ambitious as David, but its song-centered mix of heady jams and Ramones-meets-Weezer fuzz-pop marks a new creative peak.

The two bands head to JEFF's hometown on Thursday, June 30 to play at Exit/In (2008 Elliston Place, 321-3340). The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $15.

Brad Paisley is gearing up to release his new album, This is Country Music, on May 23, but that’s not the only place Paisley fans can find new music from the country star this summer. He contributed two songs to Pixar’s Cars 2 movie and its soundtrack.

Paisley teamed with British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams to write and record “Collision of Worlds,” a song that “explores the back and forth between the English and American takes on music,” according to a release. In addition, father-of-two Paisley wrote and performed the song “Nobody’s Fool.”